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Hillary's New Mississippi Ad: She's A Comeback Kid
Hillary Clinton has a new radio ad in Mississippi, specifically about the campaign itself and the momentum she might be enjoying.
"They said she couldn't do it. They counted her out. But Hillary Clinton fought back. And she won big," the announcer says. "Maybe that's why Barack Obama is running false attack ads against her now. But Hillary thinks Mississippians deserve the truth about what she's done and what she'll do."
Obama has been running his own radio ad featuring former Gov. Ray Mabus, attacking Hillary for having previously ridiculed the state of Mississippi during her Iowa campaign.
To listen to the ad, click here.
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Who said she couldn't do it? who counted her out? The MSM never did, and in terms of winning the nomination however she is out and she cant win it.
March 10, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed! Talk about denial... HRC cannot and will not be the Democractic Party's nominee... she is and will be its undoing...
March 10, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've got a re-write for the ad:
"They said I was inevitable, but hey.. they said the same thing about Rudy Guliani."
March 10, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Won big? Were we watching the same race because the one I saw Hillary actually lost Texas, and the only netted around 4-7 delegates overall, most of which Obama made up in Wyoming, and will totally wiped out in Mississippi (not to mention the 8 points he netted when they actually finished counting the votes in California, which of course the media will never mention). Big comeback? Ha, right.
And you did make those comments about Mississippi, I remember them.
March 10, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
hey man mississippi is a backwater redneck godknows what that I never need to step foot in for fear I will be found dead. what you describe about delegates is true and why it is so damn stupid to not give more delegates to the damn stupid winner. contests so rigged go on forever. the voting in november will be winner take all thank god.
March 11, 2008 2:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
1. Not only did they say she could do it. They said she was inevitable
2. His ads were not false. While Hillary may have been stating a truth, she did so by making MS look bad. That is the truth.
March 10, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny, I thought Obama's ad had a verbatim quote of what she said in Iowa. Which part of it is false?
March 10, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Glad to see her spending her money in Mississippi. Good luck with that.
March 10, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
The ad is a mess. I'm the comeback kid, and Obama is attacking me, and I attacked FEMA after Katrina and I lived next door in Arkansas and I got kids healthcare and got better health care access for the Mississippi National Guard.
There's no unifying message. It's like they just threw in every point they could think of. Who the hell put this together? No wonder they lose these states if this is the kind of effort they put in.
March 10, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe they are just trying to get the most bang for the advertising buck.
March 10, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who the hell put this together?
Crackhead, that's who. That was a spitball ad. They posted sticky notes with talking points and fired up the straws. Some kind of unifying message would have been nice. And am I'm utterly stupid for failing to see how this is true or makes any sense:
Hillary expanded health clinics in rural Arkansas, won health coverage for 6 million children, [83,000 in Mississippi alone...]
Since she was never an elected official in AR, that's just a blatant lie. As Clinton was clear to point out in January, it was politicians who enacted that. But more importantly, AK isn't MS, so what does that 83K have to do with anything?
March 10, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
blatant lie yourself dude~ it has to do with working to bring healthcare to kids in Arkansas as she has worked to bring healthcare to kids everywhere her entire professional life. she still is. she is not finished yet. I intend to help her any way I can. what have you done?
March 11, 2008 2:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama will never have enough delagates to win! Why doesn't he just drop out now?! All the Super Delagates will go with the wind - Hillary has several big state primaries to go. That Obama-guy, he's just wasting everyone's time.
March 10, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Because he has an insurmountable lead in earned delegates, has closed the gap significantly in super-delegates, and has won more than doule the number of contest Senator Clinton has.
The better questions is why, giving all of the above, Senator Clinton is staying in the race. Why not drop out for the sake of the Democratic Party?
March 10, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
hate to say it, but I think you need a good man in your life.
("not that there's anything wrong with it")
March 10, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
sarcasm, yes?
March 10, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Its kinda' like when they unfairly portrayed Bill as a race-baiter by, you know, putting the camera on him and letting him talk.
March 10, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
;-)
March 10, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
How does one "comeback" to win states that one was expected to win? I'd really love to hear that logic on that one.
I mean, she actually lost between 10 and 20 points in some of those wins. Is that what "comeback" means? To go from a 33pt. lead two weeks back to an 11 pt. lead on the day of the election?
Yeah.
That's...uh...some "comeback". Way to be, lady!
March 10, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
If I am a Clinton contributor, I'm asking why they are throwing away my money on this crap...
March 10, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
"After losing, like, eleventy something primaries in a row, they said she couldn't do it. They counted her out. But Hillary Clinton fought back, staking her claim on huge wins in Texas and Ohio. And she won big in Ohio. Maybe that's why Barack Obama is running false attack ads against her now. Attack ads that negatively call into question Hillary's 3 a.m. ad. Or scurriously challenge the whole Commander in Chief threshold ad as false. But Hillary thinks Mississippians deserve the truth about what she's done and what she'll do. Because despite what she said earlier, Mississippians are perfectly equal with Iowans."
March 10, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Comeback kid? Really? Again?
I'm feeling like she's the "party's over but you're still hanging out at my house while I'm trying to clean up" kid.
March 10, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am so tired of Her lies. I wish this was over
March 10, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I added this note in the previous MS thread but will add it here. Obama will win about 60% of the vote in MS but is only going to net +1 delegate. Al over at The Field does the district anaylsis of the delegates and it's not good for Obama. Think TX or NV - in reverse.
On the bright side, he did pick up a MS DNC super delegate today.
I would also imagine he would get the WY governor. He had said he didn't like either candidate - go figure. I would supsect he'd support his constituents.
March 10, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know it's all about Spitzer, but one of Clinton's other supporters is doing her best to her foot into her mouth:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_8489268
Not a great politician, who's run a good campaign. Just lucky that he's a black man. RIIGGHHHHTTT.
March 10, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
No Ferraro. It's we who are lucky that he is who he is.
March 10, 2008 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, Ferraro is proving to be a real piece of work, isn't she? First it was the editorial where she basically argued by the end that party leaders had an obligation to overturn the elected results of the primaries if Clinton wasn't the nominee, and now it's this.
She says three things here. One, that Obama is disrespecting "America's" wishes to elect a female President (which is something that I really want to see, but Hillary is not the one). Two, that the press has been "uniquely hard" on Clinton, ignoring all the miscues and political miscalculations that have come out of her campaign throughout the election. There have been a couple bad instances, but nothing "uniquely hard" and the press has also been her lifeline and her bullhorn throughout the second half of this primary campaign.
And lastly and most egregious is the notion that Obama's race is somehow giving him an unfair advantage with his supporters. Not only is this insultingly incorrect, but it's an open call to a more racially polarized electorate.
Basically, Ms. Ferraro is making a siren call to bigots, and that's inexcusable from anyone in the party. Much less someone of Ms. Ferraro's position and stature. I know your girl is on the ropes, but that crap right now and keep it above the belt.
March 10, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another supporter that Hillary needs to reject and denounce. This is a busy day for her.
March 10, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah right~ please dude~ if Hillary was getting 90% of the woman vote you would be not mentioning in any way how she WAS actually a woman .... wow yeah and as for caucuses for the self selected in hopeless redneck redstate little nowheres it is not in any way the point of what will be happening in november. southern and western redneck states will vote for the conservative white guy. the point is who pushes the high population blue states and tossups. electoral college is all that matters (as much as it weights small redneck backwaters over urban cultural centers) it is the only way to have a democrat as president. think dreamticket.
March 11, 2008 2:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Comeback kid",,,,,,,,, PLAGERISM, she neglected to credit the source. Ah, the shame of it all !
March 10, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Geraldine Ferraro for V.P.
Go Hillary!
March 10, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
They can recycle the banners from '84!
March 10, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's LUCKY to be black?? Wow.
March 10, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Really cares about the people of Mississippi thats why she will stay in the state in campaign until the last vote is counted.
Update: Hillary is campaigning in Pennsylvania whos primary is 6 weeks away.
Who the hell is running their campaign, going to Penn this early is just poor planning. They have plenty of time to campaign in Penn they dont need to leave Mississippi so early and yet she does.
March 10, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
My good lady...
I will have you know that that McClinton's logic goes all the way the back to the Cretans and Spartans. Some even think it can be traced back to the old rugby team known as the Aristotleans. Have you not heard of the bamboozle syllogism?
No?
Perhaps if I use its shorter initial form: BS.
Ah! See! Time worn logic!
March 10, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Clinton and her husband are comeback parasites
They want the DNC to fork over 30 million to clean up their Florida and MI scams and even though they cannot prevail, they threaten the Democratic Party with 1968 style civil war if we don't give them their way
March 10, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good god, this is almost as bad a being called a "Monster", isn't it?
How come when a Hillary supported says something stupid, it's not repeated on the 6 o'clock news?
March 10, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Class, as I've explained a thousand times before, the Clintons control the media agenda. The editorial calendar is established daily on Howard Wolfson's conference calls.
This is a lesson you really must internalize, kids: It's always, always about the Clintons and, as long as they're in this race, it always will be.
Any criticisms are presumed to be merely fodder in the VRWC and quickly ignored (see Wolfson's comparison of Obama to Ken Starr when he asked where her tax returns were). Ferraro knows this well. That's why she felt comfortable making the statement in the first place.
March 10, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
What contitutes a "big" win? Lets see (not counting MI, FL, or the TX caucus),
# of wins by 10% or more: Obama - 23 (12 primaries), Clinton - 8 (8 prim.);
# of wins by 20% or more: Obama - 18 (8 prim.), Clinton - 2(!);
# or wins by 30% or more: Obama - 11 (3 prim.), Clinton - 1 (AR);
# of wins by 40% or more: Obama - 5 (1 prim.), Clinton - 1 (still AR);
# of wins by 50% or more: Obama - 4 (1 prim.), Clinton - 0;
# of wins by 60%(!!!) or more: Obama - 1 (ID).
Average margin of victory: Obama 28% in 26 contests, Hillary 13% in 14 contests. Now about those big wins...
March 10, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF? "They" said the exact opposite. The media narrative from the start of the campaign was that nobody could compete with Hillary Clinton, she was inevitable, and she'd have it all sewn up by February 5th.
Gaining a couple of deletegates = winning big?
March 10, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, it was when you compare it to say...DC where she lost by 51pts. So Ohio was really a 61 point swing!!!
March 11, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
she's sooo not original, what can't she come up with some of her own? I believe "comeback kid" was Bill? she watches other people and copys all the time and that's why she is so boring.
"comeback you can xerox"!!!
March 10, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you misspelled "Cretan."
March 10, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
SCMadden...
TO be fair, in this case, the media has been handed a ratings driver with the Spitzer deal. The American Public, and Media, in general, loves them some coverage of politicians getting caught with their pants around their ankles.
The sad thing is that on the day that Sen Obama finally took a fairly firm stand against a bunch of bogus claims, it is going to get buried by coverage of Client 9.
March 10, 2008 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
No worries....
He can incorporate all of it into his victory lap tomorrow night. It'll get picked up.
If anything i'm hopeful it'll give a nice mental boost in the public sphere of not only what is reasonable behavior, but could we doing better?
Tenting my fingers a-la Monty Burns, I say: Advantage, Obama.
March 10, 2008 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Comeback kid! The only reason she's still clinging to a thread of hope is that the media gave her CPR to keep the ratings and bottom line up. Maybe she's the one who inhaled in the 60's...How does she dare insult Mississippi then act like -- along with Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Texas -- it's her home state! Wait until the media wakes up and really looks at the pardons that came in along with the campaign contributions during the last 30 days of the Clinton White House - while she was running for the Senate -- This comeback 'kid' is more like the boomerang kid...try get rid of her and she just keeps coming back.
Where are her tax returns? Let us see '06....wanna bet that '07 is a request for extension of time to file???
March 10, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Hillary, what about your supporter, fundraiser and member of your financial committee who recently said Obama was only winning because he was a black man? She must resign, and you must denounce and reject!!
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/post/28491876
Geraldine Ferraro Must Resign Immediately!!
March 10, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
"this is not the first time you have seen hillary clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends." - dr. maya angelou.
March 10, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
ps: if the country clearly wants obama as the nominee, then why hasn't he won any sizable states? because hillary has won them! he needs the superdelegates just as much as she does, so she has no reason to drop out. i encourage her to be a long distance winner! as maya angelou has also said, there are a lot of people who have genuine affection for senator clinton. they certainly aren't on this pro-obama website, but they are all around you. cheers.
March 10, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
No coincidence that's she winning those "Big States" in locales that are heavy tradition DEM establishments? As opposed to the rest of us in the other, now 45, hinterland states that were left to twist in the collective wind under Dem leadership since the mid 90s?
I don't doubt that there are many who still have a lasting affection for Senator Clinton. But you might underestimate how many of us out there also have very long memories.
If you understand that - you might have a bit of insight into why the rest of us are laughing at the "only Big States Matter" manta they're pitching these days.
They can keep pitching it - frankly, i don't know of anyone buying it - but of course my neighbors have just taken it the R side of the ballot in response, at least until this year.
March 10, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
who cares if she is the comeback kid, this is such a self-indulgent ad (look ma, no hands), why would she be a good president for the people of Mississippi, that's what an ad should focus on, how lame this is
March 10, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
i wonder if these are "long memories" you have, or "long memories" you THINK you have. again, give the documentary/book "the hunting of the president" a try - or not, is what i think you will do. but if you are interested in finding out how you know what you know about the clintons, go ahead. you might be shocked at how gullible we have all been.
March 11, 2008 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink